Community Involvement and Outreach
Groups of our church members are involved with several local organisations and we are seeking ways of helping and reaching out to the people of our local community.
Examples of our church members local involvement include:
Running and helping at several local Christians Against Poverty Job Clubs.
Be-friender to clients at Oldham Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre.
We run a Food Share scheme which provides a bag of food to 20 local families, who are suffering from food poverty because of circumstances that are out of their control.
Some of our members are presently or have recently been School Governors and chair of governors at three local schools
Some of our leadership team attend the local Community Partnership meetings.
Our church is regularly involved in hosting community-run half term lunch club for local school children.
We run a weekly Baby Boogies for local families, this is a group for parents and toddlers that revolves around music and movement.
We have a quarterly Messy Church, which is a craft based bible story and fun time for primary aged children from our local schools.
Last winter we had the pleasure and honour of hosting 90 Homeless men over a 12 week period at our church one night a week, along side six other Oldham churches. Each evening we all had an evening meal together, had the chance to take a shower, played games or watched videos. The men got the chance to sleep in a warm, dry bed for the night and had a good breakfast before they left us. The Salvation Army were able to get some of these men housed by local housing association. One of the men is now doing rehabilitation, with the hopes of being a counsellor helping people with addiction and mental health problems.
Groups of our church members are involved with several local organisations and we are seeking ways of helping and reaching out to the people of our local community.
Examples of our church members local involvement include:
Running and helping at several local Christians Against Poverty Job Clubs.
Be-friender to clients at Oldham Christians Against Poverty Debt Centre.
We run a Food Share scheme which provides a bag of food to 20 local families, who are suffering from food poverty because of circumstances that are out of their control.
Some of our members are presently or have recently been School Governors and chair of governors at three local schools
Some of our leadership team attend the local Community Partnership meetings.
Our church is regularly involved in hosting community-run half term lunch club for local school children.
We run a weekly Baby Boogies for local families, this is a group for parents and toddlers that revolves around music and movement.
We have a quarterly Messy Church, which is a craft based bible story and fun time for primary aged children from our local schools.
Last winter we had the pleasure and honour of hosting 90 Homeless men over a 12 week period at our church one night a week, along side six other Oldham churches. Each evening we all had an evening meal together, had the chance to take a shower, played games or watched videos. The men got the chance to sleep in a warm, dry bed for the night and had a good breakfast before they left us. The Salvation Army were able to get some of these men housed by local housing association. One of the men is now doing rehabilitation, with the hopes of being a counsellor helping people with addiction and mental health problems.
